1900-1985 US
of Spoken Word
A.k.a. Francesca Vinciguerra
Frances Winwar (3 May 1900 – 24 July 1985), was an Italian/American biographer, translator, and fiction writer.Winwar was born Francesca Vinciguerra in Taormina, Sicily and came to the United States through Ellis Island in June 1907. Her pseudonym Winwar is an Anglicization of her birth name. Her husbands were Communist propagandist and writer Victor J. Jerome, educator Bernard Grebanier, mystery novelist Richard Wilson Webb, and Dr. Francis D. Lazenby, classics scholar and librarian at the University of Notre Dame.In the 1930s and 1940s, Winwar was an outspoken opponent of Italian Fascism.
Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Queen Elizabeth And Spanish Armada / Mary, Queen Of Scots | Frances Winwar / Emily Hahn | 1967 | Album |
Napoleon And The Battle Of Waterloo / The Marquis De Lafayette | Frances Winwar / Hodding Carter | 1966 | Album |